Re The Chairman's "...yelled at....":
Some years ago: Got (appropriately) mini-chastised from Gabriele (formerly half of Dual Porpoise?) upon surfacing after an O.D. dive sans buddy. I told her what happened: That buddy was a Russian who took off like a banshee as soon as we hit the water. I tried to keep up for a minute or so then said WTF and had a nice solo dive. She understood. The mad Russian finally surfaced a couple hundred meters away with about five pounds of air. Gabby rightfully educated him on the error of his ways. (It didn't sink in.) Regardless, I did the second dive with someone else. Whatever became of the comrade - I dunno. (He didn't die - at least not that day.) Note: I, like all of us who've dove a few dozen to a few thousand dives, have had some "moments. In my case the vast majority of those were caused by our assigned buddies.)
Re sportxlh immediately preceeding:
As far as the actual retail shop (World Watersports and the old Divers Outlet), I've gotten lots of stuff from them over the years; tanks, regs including reg maintenance in FLL, wetsuits, knives, lights, BCs, plus miscellaneous nit noi. All good.